Birkbeck Sport Management Programmes – Events in Seoul, Korea – 24th & 26th March
Sean Hamil, Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, will be visiting Seoul in March to host a session on Careers in Sport Management and to give an academic lecture on the lessons the K-League can take from the English Premier League.
Sean Hamil, Director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, will be visiting Seoul in March to host a session on Careers in Sport Management and to give an academic lecture on the lessons the K-League can take from the English Premier League. The events are open to prospective students, Birkbeck Sport Management alumni and interested parties. See the details below for more information about the events.
Careers in Sport Management
24th March 2014 – 6pm – British Council Office, Seoul – British Council, 4F, 68 Saemunan-ro (Hungkuk Life Insurance B/D, Shimunno1-ga), Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-786
Graduates of Birkbeck’s Sport Management programmes have gone on to work in a range of successful careers in the Sport Industries in Korea, the UK and all around the world. For example, Birkbeck has graduates working for the Korean Football Association, the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association, The FA (English Football Association), FIFA, and many other sporting organisations.
The Careers in Sport Management session will give you the opportunity to hear from Sean Hamil, the Director of Birkbeck’s Sport Business Centre, and from Birkbeck’s Korean graduates about the career opportunities upon graduating from a Sport Management programme.
The English Premier League: A model for the development of professional football in the Korea Republic?
26th March 2014 – 6pm – British Council Office, Seoul - British Council, 4F, 68 Saemunan-ro (Hungkuk Life Insurance B/D, Shimunno1-ga), Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea 110-786
Sean Hamil, Director of Birkbeck’s Sport Business Centre, will present a review of the lessons the K-League can learn from the English Premier League.
The presentation will focus on the success of the English Premier League, and what Korean football can incorporate into its own developing model of professional football, headed by the K-League.
Drawing on fifteen years of analysis, Sean Hamil will illustrate that the lessons for Korean football based on the success of the English Premier League are far from straightforward. The presentation will critically examine the Premier League as an economic, sporting and cultural phenomenon; charting its development from the primitive business models of football clubs in the 1980s through to its transformation into the world’s leading national club competition generating exceptional revenues.
This will be contrasted by an assessment of what lessons the K-League can learn from the Premier League, including examining the concept of fan loyalty, the significant private investment in the Premier League, the promotion and relegation system that operates in English football, the effect of the success of the Premier League on the television viewing figures and fan loyalty to other leagues such as the K-League and the proliferation of non-English born players in the Premier League and their affect on the English national team.